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IN MEMORIAM
DAVID LYNCH
1946-2025

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UPCOMING EVENTS

UPCOMING SCREENINGS

7.20PM FRIDAY JANUARY 31ST
A MUSCULAR DOUBLE BILL SPECIAL
LOVE LIES BLEEDING + MYSTERY MOVIE

WWC is back at the end of January by which time (let's be honest) you will have given up on the gym membership you so enthusiastically bought at the beginning of the year. So why not let White Wall Cinema do the heavy lifting for you and provide some cinematic 'gymspiration' in the form of a muscular double bill starting with Rose Glass's rippling queer revenge thriller Love Lies Bleeding followed by a magnificent (and no less ripped) mystery movie.

A major step-up from Rose Glass's Bafta Nominated 2020 debut 'Saint Maud' (Mark Kermode's favourite film of that year) Love Lies Bleeding is an uber cool sapphic thriller starring Kristen Stewart as shy and reclusive gym manager Lou living in a rural town in New Mexico in the late 1980s. When she meets ambitious female bodybuilder Jackie (Katy O'Brian), who is en-route to her Vegas bodybuilding competition dreams, romance immediately blossoms, but is stopped in it's tracks by the complications of Lou's dangerous and criminal family headed by her ruthless gangster father Lou Sr (Ed Harris).

This hyper stylised, ultra horny revenge thriller splattered with flashes of violence and even a psychedelic horror edge is also blessed with a brilliant soundtrack and an excellent ensemble performance that all adds up to a rip(ped) roaring tale that pulls off the herculean feat of being both a crowd pleaser and a true piece of cult cinema. Join us for this brilliant Friday night screening that will be followed by another equally entertaining cult gem with a reputation as big as Katy O'Brians biceps. This mystery movie is really quite something, an eye popping cinematic extravaganza not to be missed.

January 31st

8.10PM FRIDAY FEBRUARY 14TH
ALT. VALENTINE'S SPECIAL
REAR WINDOW

Legendary director Alfred Hitchcock is often mistakenly most associated with his hit horror movies such as Psycho or The Birds, but any real Hitchcock lover will tell you these don't come near top of the list when it comes to the director's greatest films. Hitchcock movies that employ an air of mystery such as Vertigo, or North By Northwest (amongst many others) are the films that best exemplify the style that earned him the moniker 'The Master of Suspense'. This outrageously brilliant and incredibly entertaining 1954 mystery romance thriller is undoubtedly among Hitchcock's best as he employs genius production design and his two ultra magnetic leads Jimmy Stewart & Grace Kelly (as well as the wonderful Thelma Ritter) to brilliant effect to create one of the best (and most referenced) films in all of cinema history.

When professional photographer L.B. 'Jeff' Jeffries (Stewart) is laid up with an injury after an accident he finds himself confined to a wheelchair and a waist high, leg and foot plaster-cast. Despite frequent visits and overtures from his glamorous socialite girlfriend Lisa (Grace Kelly sporting a series of jaw droppingly gorgeous pieces of couture fashion) and sage advice from his no-nonsense (and hilarious) nurse Stella (Ritter), Jeff can't help voyeuristically tracking the activities of his neighbours as he looks out across the courtyard from his chair, only to suspect something entirely more sinister is going on just across the way.

The perfect alternative Valentines film, not only as an undisputed masterpiece of cinema (consistently ranked in the best 50 American films ever made) but as a romantic piece, both through the simultaneously amusing, heart-breaking, sinister and joyous lives of Jeff's neighbours but through the film's central enjoyable will they, won't they relationship between Stewart & Kelly. And after all, what would our now traditional annual alternative Valentine's romantic special be without something like a suspected murder and some dark humour (here in Hitchcock's trademark style) thrown into the plot. Book now for a Friday night to remember, whether you are flying solo or bringing your date it doesn't matter, Rear Window is a joy to watch from beginning to end.

February 14th

7PM SATURDAY MARCH 1ST
A DAVID LYNCH TRIBUTE
DAVID LYNCH'S DUNE

(1984)
-4K REMASTER

With the sad passing of a true icon of cinema in David Lynch, this previously scheduled screening now becomes an unintended tribute to one of the great directors of all time. Despite being Lynch's second most successful film at the box office (his highest earner was The Elephant Man) 1984's Dune was seen as a box office bomb and remains (easily) one of Lynch's most underappreciated works and is still (incredibly given his back catalogue) one of his most misunderstood.

It's true to say Dune is the David Lynch movie that most exceeds the master filmmaker's own grasp, but perhaps for this very reason it may well be his most revealing, and one of the most 'Lynchian' of all his works. Based on the previously thought 'unfilmable' novel by Frank Herbert that modern cinema goers now know so well thanks to the Denis Villeneuve, Timothée Chalamet led productions of recent years, Lynch's version is an altogether different animal from the book and other adaptations.

Built for the big screen Dune is a masterpiece of epic and eccentric gothic production design, a true feast for the eyes, with even the less well aged special effects oozing (sometimes literally) charm. It also features an out of this world all-star cast that ranges from Twin Peaks cast members like Kyle MacLachlan, Everett McGill, and Jack Nance, as well as Blue Velvet cast like Dean Stockwell and Brad Dourif mixed in with a stunning array of talent that includes Bergman regular Max Von Sydow, Blade Runner's Sean Young, and Das Boot's Jürgen Prochnow. Hell, even Sting turns up (in some outrageously small and weird leather underpants) all offering some of the most wonderfully memorable and 'Lynchian' line readings in cinema history.

Despite the film's initial reception, in 2025, Dune's concoction of sights and sounds, all capped with an epic soundtrack from Brian Eno and Toto, remains an undeniably mesmerising experience that shows one of cinema's true iconoclasts attempting and perhaps 'failing' to redefine the blockbuster Sci Fi movie. Oh but what beauty there is in the failing, Dune is a swirling dream of a movie that thrills, confounds, entertains and catches the viewer repeatedly off-guard. We urge you to see or re-visit this fascinating, beguiling ride that we think contains a true epic masterpiece lurking just below the surface like a giant Sandworm in the deserts of Arrakis. Come celebrate this legend of cinema in all his eccentricity let loose with $40 million dollars ($121 million in today's money) with this special 4K restoration screening on Saturday March 1st.

March 1st

6.10PM SUNDAY MARCH 23RD
A DAVID LYNCH TRIBUTE
DAVID LYNCH'S

INLAND

EMPIRE

-4K REMASTER

With the sad passing of a true icon of cinema in David Lynch, we screen the final feature film of his illustrious career in the shape of this special 4K remaster presentation of the infamous Inland Empire. The final 'ultimate' puzzle of a career made out of cinematic puzzles, this 2006 experimental psychological thriller represents the natural progression and final landing point of the much discussed Lynchian style. Inland Empire is the direct successor to the likes of Blue Velvet, Wild At Heart, Twin Peaks, Lost Highway and perhaps most crucially Mulholland Drive.

The initially perplexing Mulholland Drive is now in hindsight, often hailed as one of, if not the, greatest film of the 2000s, this next and final work however, is a film that audiences are only just beginning to catch up to. A crucial artefact of the early digital filmmaking era, Lynch is as innovative as ever in this wild tale of a Hollywood actress (a mighty performance by Laura Dern) who begins to take on the personality traits of a character she is playing in a supposedly cursed film production. Largely financed by Lynch himself, started without a finished screenplay and developed (as was Lynch's preference) on a scene by scene basis, the film is famously shot by Lynch himself entirely on a handheld Sony camcorder. If Lynch was known for his pre-occupation with the relationship between cinema and dreams then Inland Empire is the closest we will ever come to having a live feed from inside David Lynch's head on the screen.

The final and most undiluted statement by one of cinemas great heroes Inland Empire is a full circle moment and easily his most personal film since 1977's Eraserhead and an extraordinary document of Lynch's boundless imagination. Once again joining with regular collaborators like Dern (Blue Velvet / Wild At Heart) Justin Theroux (Mulholland Drive), Harry Dean Stanton (Wild At Heart) & Grace Zabriskie (Twin Peaks) David also brings in the likes of Jeremy Irons and Julia Ormond plus a collection of star cameos. Uncompromising and masterful, Inland Empire is a deep, seductive, troubling and confrontational whirlwind of a film that will confound and beguile you throughout.

March 23rd